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rfmcdonaldI've been thinking of Doris Lessing, particularly of her 1985 book of essays, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside. The book version of the CBC's Massey Lectures from that year, available for listeners at the website of the CBC, , this very good book is Lessing's attempt to explain why people are willing to behave in ways others would think irrational. What is going on? How can we save ourselves from making these mistakes?
This year I want to extricate myself from my prisons. I'm not sure what there are, where they are, even the extent to which they can be escaped, but I do know that I have allowed myself to be terribly circumscribed. Some of these limits have justifiable reasons, some do not, but--I hope!--most can be escaped. Here's to doing just that.
This year I want to extricate myself from my prisons. I'm not sure what there are, where they are, even the extent to which they can be escaped, but I do know that I have allowed myself to be terribly circumscribed. Some of these limits have justifiable reasons, some do not, but--I hope!--most can be escaped. Here's to doing just that.
